December 13, 2016 AT 2:00 pm

Laser Lights Bring the Aurora Borealis Anywhere on Earth #ArtTuesday

With BOREALIS, he graduates from a building to the entire sky above the Swiss city of Lausanne. “People stopped in their tracks, in awe. Voices went quiet and, somehow, under this expanse covered by the lights, people would gather and create small groups to live this experience together,” he tells The Creators Project. The result is reminiscent of Daan Roosegaard’s, Waterlicht, which uses lasers to represent the water held back by Dutch dams.

Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.

1 Comment

This is not beautiful, this is light pollution and is harmful to nature as well as obscuring and detracting from the natural beauty of the night sky. Think of the kids (and adults) that will see this and then be disappointed when they see NATURAL aurora borealis because it isn’t as “bright and flashy” as a fake art exhibit that essentially tells them that “the natural world isn’t good enough.”